Skunk Anansie - Black Traffic
Artist: Skunk Anansie
Album: Black Traffic
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Rating: 3/5
It was back in 2010 when Skunk Anansie last released an album but this week the band are back with their latest offering Black Traffic.
Skunk Anansie have enjoyed a career that has spanned almost twenty years and yet Black Traffic is perhaps their most experimental album to date as they
I Will Break You is the opening track on the album and it a heavy and rocking start to the record and Skin’s voice rings out against the raging guitars.
This is one of the heaviest songs on the album but it is the perfect introduction to Black Traffic as the band show that they aren’t messing around with their first independently released album.
Sad Sad Sad continues this heavy rock theme as in what is almost a chant along anthem - the guitars are fantastic and, once again, Skin’s voice is on fine form.
They inject a rather unexpected electronic element into Spit You Out as they mix that with their trademark rock sound.
Rock and electro seem to go hand in hand on this track and Spit You Out is one of the most exhilarating songs on the album.
With I Hope You Get To Meet Your Hero the band change the pace again as this is one of the most stripped back tracks on Black Traffic - or as stripped back as a Skunk Anansie track can be.
The song shows a delicate side to Skin’s voice in what is an emotional and rather raw vocal from the front woman.
The strings are the perfect accompaniment to her voice and it is nice to see a different instrument from the guitar on the track.
The band never stick with one sound throughout this record as Drowning is more of a pop track while Sticky Fingers In Your Honey has more of a glam rock feel about it
Skunk Anansie have never been a band to follow the crowd or release an album that sounds exactly like a previous release and it shows with Black Traffic as it seems them dabble with more than just rock sounds.
There is a pulsating energy throughout this entire album - even if all of the tracks don’t quite hit the mark - and it is an exciting listen from start to finish.
Skunk Anansie - Black Traffic is out now
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